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Can a database reside on both traditional and Exadata storage?

April 26, 2017database exadata storage traditional

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Can a database reside on both traditional and Exadata storage?

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Yes. A database, tablespace or even a segment (when partitioned) can reside on both traditional SAN or NAS storage as well as on Exadata storage. However, an entire segment must be on Exadata to take advantage of the offload processing. If not, the segment will be accessed using traditional block I/O methods and the performance advantage of exabyte storage will not be realized.